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Todd Keisling, The Smile Factory review

Many of us have worked at one of those places, right? You know, that company where we are just another cog in the machine, endless hours day in day out the same thing week after week. Every once in a while, something happens to rattle the status quo, uh, but we don’t talk about that…

Yep, corporate America where numbers matter, and people don’t. Punch in punch out, yes sir no sir, keep on smiling and just maybe you’ll get a gold watch at the end. I couldn’t help but think of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall while reading this.

Todd Keisling takes quite a cynical look at the horrors of a 9 to 5, the things one must do to keep on living while we slowly die inside. Although this is a work of fiction I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps he…